Example sentences of "but [conj] they be not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere , it was stressed that no one wished to interfere with the ‘ responsible and competent parent ’ , but where they were not so , ‘ action is needed either to reinforce the consciousness or replace the incompetency ’ . |
| 2 | I mean the statement made today was that they 're not falling behind but that they 're not progressing . |
| 3 | He stood more in the classical Christian tradition , which insisted that self-knowledge and knowledge of God are intimately connected , but that they are not at all the same thing . |
| 4 | The connection between developmental considerations and sado-masochistic tendency would also explain , under these considerations , the fact that much of the tendency and resultant activity is sexual ( libidinally linked ) but that they are not inevitably so . |
| 5 | Leaving aside the issue of sovereignty — not of the House but of the people to self-government — the devil of the single currency is not merely that the economies of the Community are simply not convergent and would be prevented from converging by a single currency , but that they are not all at the same point in their economic cycles . |
| 6 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 7 | Their great unpopularity may have been the consequence of the heavy financial burden they imposed on their employers ; their mere existence is proof that money was circulating fast in western Europe ; but that they were not always paid implies an economy too immature to support them readily . |
| 8 | ‘ but essentially I said that we could use other solutions to expand the blood , but that they were not as effective as blood at transporting oxygen . |
| 9 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |
| 10 | Not many children are likely to have been to a circus ; but although they 're not as glamorous or as attractive as they once were , they still hold a fascination for children . |
| 11 | But if they are not spotted early in their training , they can be a real menace to themselves and to their instructors . |
| 12 | People can go on communicating for hours on end , but if they are not talking about the really important issue , the time is not well spent . |
| 13 | Mr Blunkett said : ‘ I do n't blame them for that , but if they are not accountable to us and they are not accountable to the Secretary of State , who the hell do they think they are accountable to ? ’ |
| 14 | But if they are not using the credit facility we are not making much profit out of them either . ’ |
| 15 | He and Kendall will meet for further discussions but if they are not fruitful , the player will become a free agent when his contract expires at the end of the month , although any transfer will command a fee . |
| 16 | Erm I 've , I I think I 'll erm was talking about people attending the health authority meetings at the moment but the local health authority do move meetings around , Saffron Walden Bishop 's Stortford , Harlow and and and one over at erm and this apart from it 's was only us coming from Harlow at the meeting last week and the health authority met in Harlow er , you know the me the meetings are moving about , they are there for people to come to but if they 're not coming to the meetings while they 're o on on the doorstep then , then really what else can the health authority do to me , to make people come ? |
| 17 | You may treat them as your children since they were two years old but if they 're not a blood relative of yours they wo n't be inheriting anything anyway however close they may be . |
| 18 | There would then be other means however for us to pursue our our concerns that have n't we know er are moving into a future speculative situation , but if they 're not taken up we have other means of pursuing those , but they would n't affect the the conformity issue . |
| 19 | But if they 're not celebrating the Labour Party will do it for them . |
| 20 | But if they 're not feeling quite well what can you expect ? |
| 21 | But if they 're not gon na break up , I mean , there are some pretty disillusioned players there . |
| 22 | Erm the pressures in the E C at the moment , I think , would be better handled if as nations come , en democratically , economically , erm they come into the E C , not perhaps at the right time for those that are inside , because that might be too late frankly , but but they 're not pushed into the E C en bloc , too early . |
| 23 | but because they 're not linguists |
| 24 | The Icelanders protested , not because they supported the cause of Facisim or German expansion — given the choice they would doubtless have stood with the Norwegians , fellow Vikings — but because they were not asked to choose . |
| 25 | But though they are not physical in their nature , and though it is difficult or impossible to conceive that they are physical in their origin , they are , for Darwin and his followers , factors in the evolutionary process in its physical or organic aspect . |
| 26 | If they were good , you would say it 's good for our art-form , but when they 're not and they take our money , that makes me mad . ’ |
| 27 | Sometimes his ideas are good , but when they 're not , he 's unable to recognise the fact . |
| 28 | I had written my reasons for so thinking ; but as they were not satisfactory to the other noble and learned Lords who heard the case , I do not now repeat them nor persist in them . |